BEDA #7: TossInTheLakeathon

Today was so jokes, man.

I woke up around seven, and we headed to Edina to the house that we were gonna be working at. The day started off slow at first. We were just raking and stuff like that, nothing major. And really, no one I really knew very well had shown up yet. Plus, I was too tired to really be excited about anything at that point.

Ohh, did things ever pick up, though.

While we were waiting for Jim to bring the stain, we were all sorta just standing around and chatting. Then Gary, our youth leader, told us that we should head inside while we were waiting at take a look at the house. And dear God, it was adorable. I swear, just about every spot within Shotzy's - that's the name of the woman who lived there- reach was absolutely covered in the most adorable little trinkets. My mom and I ended up talking to her for the longest time, and it turns out she reeeally likes my grandpa, who's one of the priests at my church. And I swear, she was the most darling little old lady I've ever seen. I loved her to pieces.

But ultimately, we ended up going back outside, and we stained the entire outside of the house, which took a long. long. time.

That wasn't the fun part though. What was really great about the Workathon was the presence of this man-made lake right behind Shotzy's house. You can imagine that after five hours of working, twenty kids between fourteen and eighteen would start getting a little restless. Well, ever since like two hours into the whole Workathon, Dan, Tim, and I had been talking about how by the end of the day, someone needed to be thrown in the lake. I was in the backyard staining some of the posts supporting the deck when we see it. Tim and Dan scoop Sarah, one of the sophomores, up off her feet, and carry her out into the little deck. Everyoneee out there was whopping and hollering and cheering them on, and Jim, the one who got us the stain, had his camera out and everything.

But when they finally counted down, Tim didn't let go. So ultimately Sarah only got her shoes wet. The rest of the juniors, myself included, weren't so okay with this.

Not much later, Addison, Evan, and I climbed down from deck and just say, "Anyone who doesn't have stain all over their hands, grab the camera." We were making this sorta slow procession towards Dan, Sarah, and Tim, and then we made a dart for it. Sarah ran, of course, but I caught 'er by the waist and we dragged her out to the dock. Again. From there, we got an awesome set of action shots, one of which actually has Sarah in the process of flying through the air. Maaan, I wish I could show you guys, but I need to get them from Jim, and he hasn't put them on Facebook yet. I promise I'll put them up here once I get 'em.

For pretty much the rest of the time we were there though, it was complete war. Dan and I actually ended up getting in like, a full-fledged wrestling match trying to get each other into the lake, and I have a nice little gash in my eyebrow from my glasses right next to the scar from where I tripped and my glasses cut into the same eyebrow when I was like, three or four. I'd like to announce that with the help of some others, I won. Though neither of us aaactually fell in the lake.

I was absolutely exhausted when I got home though. I ended up taking a niiiice long nap, and opted for a bubble bath instead of a shower once I woke up. Man, work hasn't been that fun in a long time though.